Greater Binghamton Area - L5R Card Group

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Re: Greater Binghamton Area - Card Group

Post by Vardaen » Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:11 pm

No singles on that site.

Seeing as you can buy a whole pack for about 10$ on Amazon I doubt you are going to find many singles for sale anyplace. Check your PM, I did pick up a few more. I now have just about all of them. So any deck should be possible.
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Post by TetNak » Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:26 pm

Yeah. I wasn't sure because GoT is their focus. But they do sell GoT singles.
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Post by Vardaen » Mon Nov 26, 2012 8:24 pm

So now that I'm at work I have time to post here :)

Brennor came over on Friday and we busted out the Lord of the Rings LCG. This is quickly becoming my new favorite game. The Co-Op mechanics, the lore, the art, and just winning makes it fun to play.

We used two decks that I already had made. I forgot the Victory Point scores at home, so I'll edit them in later on. I've added them, using the original scoring rules I heard there is errata but havne't seen it myself.

Me - Lore/Spirit: Elrond, Bilbo, Eowyn. This is the same deck, with updates, that I played with JP and MV the week before. It proved it could continue to Quest like a mad man, and the additions/tweaks I made to do more healing, and more encounter deck mitigation proved its worth. By the end of things I did yank out the Expecting Mischief, and replaced them with Lord of Imladris to try and really help keep our guys alive.

Bren - Tactics/Leadership (or as he called it Fight and Strategy): Elrohir, Elladan, Legolas. It was the ranged/sientieal deck that JP had put together. We tweaked things after the first game to include 2 more Gandalf cards putting it at 3. I have 7 Gandalf cards and 3 decks so I can't get 3 in each unfortunately, but the Dwarf deck was overloaded anyhow so I don't think it will be a big deal. Anyhow, this deck continues to be great, shooting things all over the place.

Game 1: Flies and Spiders 66 Points
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This was officially Bren's first game, other than a very short tutorial a few weeks before. The game went pretty smoothly. I quested hard and he shot a lot of spiders from ranged. Both decks worked well and Bren quickly got the hang of it. The having to Bow to Defend, and then Bow to Attack always gets people early game, but he over came that quickly. Sneak Attack and Gandalf combo proved it worth. We had the ending where we had to kill Ungoliant's Spawn to win, and it only took a round or so because of a Hail of Stones and a combined attack effort.

Game 2: Anduin Passage 60 Points
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This is one of the hardest quests I've seen so far. In the past I've found it impossible single player. JP and I also got served the first time we tried it. This time with Bren was different. We did really well. We were able to push through the Hill Troll very quickly and we didn't suffer too many points of Threat this time from it. Having done that we managed to get on to the raft and off the raft rather quickly. When the final fights came up once more a few pot shots before combat ended the monsters and we won. I think we lost a hero this time at the last moment, but it happens.

Game 3: Escape From Dol Guldur (Attempt 1 and Attempt 2) Failed First One, 82 Points
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This is a new one for me, never played it. The goal is to save a prisoner who is locked up in the Necromancer's Tower and get the hell out of there. This is the first quest with Objective Cards. These are three cards laid out on the staging area that you need to collect but killing off the guardians and then hold them through the adventure. Holding them gives you some penalty. Also the set up removes one hero at random from the group! We played this once, and Eowyn was the prisoner. Which meant I didn't get her until stage 2. We never made it that far. The encounter deck was brutal, throwing out Dungeon Jailer several times, and just generally messing with us. We actually quit this game realizing part way in we were doomed when Bren lost one of his hero's in a fight.

So we rebooted and tried again. This time it was Legolas that was the prisoner and that worked out much better. With no one resourced screwed we plunged into the game, and once more had 2 Dungeon Jailers to contend with. I was able to keep the pressure up on the questing and we never suffered the ill effects of the Jailers thank the Valar. Bren pulled one down to fight ahead of time and I played a Forest Snare on one of the other foes that attacked him and was bad ass. That was a huge deal. We actually got Gandalf's Map onto Bilbo which was a big deal and moved on to Stage 2. A quick few points and out came Legolas once more.
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Unfortunately we screwed this up at this point. We forgot at that point a Nazgul shows up to give us trouble. For a few rounds we failed to include him, which clearly made things easier. When we did realize it we put it out and adjusted backwards as best as we could. But the damage was done. Still, it would have been slower questing, but not the end of the game. Bren started shooting the Nazgul right away and I cleared out the quest stuff to get us to the next to objectives, a Key and a Torch. Both which suck to have. The Map means you can't attack or defend with the guy with it, the torch adds 2 threat each turn and the key gives you 1 damage every turn. We grabbed those and ran, moving to the next stage, where your own deck turns into 1 force orcs that attack you every turn. Eventually Bilbo died and dropped the torch and map, but at that point you didn't need them any more so we just ran like crazy until we had enough points to escape the dungeons.

This was a nail biter, and very hard, but we managed. I would like to do it again and get things right and see what happens. I think it would turn out worse.

Game 4: The Redhorn Gate 627 Points
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This is the first of the Adventure Pack adventures, no longer playing in the Core Set now. the idea is to escort Arwen from Lorien to Rivendell. I had to remove my Arwen from my deck because they give you a version you have to use, which bounces back and forth from player to player. If she dies you loose. The adventure is mostly a quest and location oriented one, with fewer foes, but still enough to make Bren's deck key to winning. We start up the mountain fighting Wargs and the snow. Then we reach the snow drifts and the mechanics change slightly. If you ever have a character with 0 Quest, they die. The encounter deck tosses out things like snow storms and biting cold that reduce your Quest, and the stage itself gives you -1 Quest. We once again goofed and failed to notice that, so I had a few guys that should have died the moment we changed stages or the moment they came out. Once we realized we killed them off. We were playing around 1am at this point and were tired. Faramirbecame a great card, +1 Quest to all of a person's characters when they quest. This helped even things out and keep us moving. Faramir came out in the last game also and was a real boon. When Bren bowed him to give my 6 guys +1 quest each it really adds up. So we pushed on through the snow. To win you need 5 Victory points. The only way to do that is to explore some combination of Caradhras, Celebdil, Fanuidhol or The Dimrill Stair. We took on Caradhras because it was in play to start, and then Celebdil. None of our heroes or Arwen froze to death, some of our allies did, but we won the game. I would like to try this one a second time as well and get the mechanics right.

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All in all it was a good night of cards. Since then I picked up the rest of the Hunt for Gollumn cycle cards. I haven't tweaked the decks but I see some real potential for some of the cards. I think I may tweak the decks again. If I can get four of together at once I think it might be nice to try each of us playing a single color instead of a combo of colors. Certainly there are some awesome Spirit Cards not being used; A Rohan themed deck that quests and deals with locations lickety split would be a good addition to the mix.
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Re: Greater Binghamton Area - Card Group

Post by Vardaen » Tue Nov 27, 2012 11:19 pm

When is the next session guys?

I can do Thursday or the Weekend.
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Post by jigglypuff69 » Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:40 am

Working all the above. And need to get my deck together... I might be able to do that on part of Saturday.
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Post by MadVlat » Wed Nov 28, 2012 6:28 am

This week is kinda rough for me also. What about next Thursday???
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Post by Vardaen » Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:33 pm

I'm out of Fri 7th, that Thursday Amaris is home as well. I don't know what our plans are for that day. I'll have to see, but since she works so much any chance we get to see each other trumps cards.

I can do weekends (not 7-9th). 4,11,13,19,20,26,27

That's a lot of days (half the month) someone needs to be able to match one or two of those days.
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Post by TetNak » Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:11 pm

You know, I was thinking, how possible would it be to do one of these games by Skype? We did Skype for my other Fantasy Football league for a guy who moved. It worked great.
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Post by Vardaen » Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:45 pm

Actually no real need for that. There is a software program that lets you play online with people, it has all the deck cards, etc. I saw it on someone's blog but didn't devle deeper into it. I know I played a few dozen L5R games using Gempukku software the same way. My friend I can chatted on the phone while we shared a virtual table top of all the cards.

http://www.cardgamedb.com/forums/index. ... ith-mates/
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Post by TetNak » Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:49 pm

Oh, interesting. Cardgamedb is awesome. Maybe if you want to play sometime, I'd be down with that.
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